Most contractors when they look at your job already know the ballpark per amount of material or room or whatever and are just deciding how much to tack on for degree of difficulty and how fancy your house looks.  

Although I've had this BP account for 1 year we experienced difficulties with the app and failed to engage.

We do pay Elite on the back end, but they have ALL of the skin in the game.As the owner, my role is to recruit agents, train them, provide structure and accountability, identify the obstacles that slow them down, demolish those obstacles and then to get the heck out of the way.I absolutely love this business and love even more helping agents to make an unreasonably high income.  

Smaller banks and commercial lenders may allow an assumption but rarely as they would rather make a new loan and an assumption may not have any new buyer's skin in the game, not a good lending practice.

How difficult is it to acquire financing for new construction?

Obviously, you can see the difficulty in finding these types of deals.

Whether they want out, whether they are willing to still have skin in the game (i.e. do they still have confidence in the property to make money...sometimes tells you a lot about the property itself), and sometimes it tells you just how low they are willing to go on price to just get out.  

His argument for a duplex is that if I decide to move, I am "stuck" with a duplex that no one will buy and will have difficulty purchasing a new home in the area I move to.First of all, I am not sure why I would ever want to sell (for a while at least).

Which I have heard is quite difficult. I

Although the market can be lucrative, finding good deals in these areas has been increasingly difficult. I